Import vcards fail with various reasons

ozy

Hello,

Using latest gromox-2.17.88.da6bc72-lp154.28.1.x86_64, I cannot import a vcard file into the webmail.

This is the error message I get in the webmail

This is what I get in gromox-zcore journal:

nov. 21 19:31:49 email zcore[2337]: oxvcard_import:207 returned false

I have created a minimalistic test vcard file which also fails to import:

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:2.1
FN:TEST
EMAIL;PREF:me@example.tld
END:VCARD

Trying another card with V3 works well:

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
FN;CHARSET=UTF-8:James T Kirk
N;CHARSET=UTF-8:Kirk;James;T;;
EMAIL;CHARSET=UTF-8;type=HOME,INTERNET:jkirk@starfleet.org
ORG;CHARSET=UTF-8:Starfleet
REV:2023-11-21T18:35:37.888Z
END:VCARD

V4 versions also seem to work well

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:4.0
N:Gump;Forrest;;;
TITLE:Shrimp Man
ORG:Bubba Gump Shrimp Co.
TEL;TYPE=WORK,VOICE:+49 170 5 25 25 25
EMAIL;TYPE=WORK:forrestgump@example.com
URL;TYPE=WORK:https://www.linkedin.com/in/forrestgump
ADR;TYPE=WORK:42 Plantation St.;Baytown;30314;United States of America
TEL;TYPE=CELL,VOICE:+19177777777
EMAIL;TYPE=HOME:forrestgump@examplehome.com
ADR;TYPE=HOME:600 Main St.;Brooklynn;13458;USA
BDAY:12/03/1965
NOTE:This works!!!!!!!!
END:VCARD

So I'm not complaining that the old format fails, I'm just suggesting that there should be a proper error message like Please use vCard format V3 or later.

Thanks 😉

ozy

@mwilliams sorry for the bad tagging 😉

I've pushed investigation a bit further.
I can import single vCards v3.0 or v4.0.
But multiple vCards in a single vcf file may fail unless the file size is smaller than roughly 80KB.
When trying to import bigger files, I have no error messages in gromox-zcore (gromox-2.17.88.da6bc72-lp154.28.1.x86_64).
I've imported multiple smaller files of course.

I initially thought that maybe nginx maybe limiting upload size, but as I can upload attachments, that makes no sense.

Also, accents and Umlauts aren't represented right in the imports, regardless if I import an UTF-8 or a CP1250 encoded vCard.

Shall I make two git issues at gromox or grommunio-web for each problem perhaps ?

PS: I upgraded an CSV2vCard converter that handles multiple scenarios and mappings. Perhaps that could be useful for Grommunio somewhere in a wiki or so; https://github.com/netinvent/csv2vcard

Best regards.

ozy

I've pushed my investigation a bit further.
Actually, it's not about the vCard file size, but about the number of vCards in a vCard file.

And, to use the Grommunio webmail, there has to be no more than..drum roll 496 vCards in one file.

I have no idea why that's the exact number, but it works for me. I can import all files having 496 or less contacts.
If I happen to import a file with 497 contacts, I get:

If I happen to import a file with more than 497 contacts, I get the above error message.

I hope this might help the diagnosis 😉

Test done with grommunio Web 3.6.1.9110feff-lp154.5.2, Gromox 2.17.126.ac09d2f

PS: I've updated my csv2vcard tool with --max-vcards-per-file to make my imports work.

jengelh

ozy If I happen to import a file with more than 497 contacts, I get the above error message.

Then that's upload size because 497 is a rather awkward number for a limit.

jengelh

vcard3 was published 1998.
But I can smell what's up. Outlook still emits vcard 2.1 in 2023 🤦
This will take some time.

ozy

@jengelh Tried to import both vCard v3.0 and vCard 4.0 formats, with all the caveats cited above.
vCard 2.1 isn't supported by Grommunio webmail at all.

ozy

jengelh That's what I initially thought...
But then you can upload attachments which count in MBs, so that's probably not the reason.

Limits seem fine from /usr/share/grommunio-common/nginx/locations.d/grommunio-web.conf

  client_max_body_size 50M;

  include fastcgi_params;
  fastcgi_param REMOTE_USER "";
  fastcgi_param PHP_VALUE "
    post_max_size=31M
    upload_max_filesize=30M
    max_execution_time=3660
    session.cookie_secure=on
    session.cookie_httponly=on
    session.cookie_samesite=Strict
    allow_url_include=Off
    session.sid_bits_per_character=6
    zlib.output_compression=Off
    session.save_path=/var/lib/grommunio-web/session
    zend.exception_ignore_args=On
    zend.exception_string_param_max_len=0
  ";

jengelh

https://docs.grommunio.com/man/zcore.8gx.html cf. zcore_max_obh_per_session
Error message improvements in grommunio-web-3.6-7-g20975ed1 , gromox-2.19-49-g52905cf84 .

piter

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